Third country detention continues.

2) Movement history and infrastructure: Every comrade I know is deeply rooted in that city's movement history and infrastructure - whether networks emerging from the American Indian Movement to labour organizing against Amazon to the George Floyd uprising.

This is critical because the past two years have seen a lot of viral calls for general strikes on a range of vital issues, but these have rarely materialized into the organizing power & logistical coordination necessary for an actual general strike.

1) The general strike came from organizing for a general strike. Not from social media posting about going on a general strike, but organizing in neighbourhoods, organizing power in unions, and organizations drawing out members and networks.

I said what I said

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

that crowd doesn’t even include the people actively patrolling, doing mutual aid, and dozens of small protests on corners throughout the city during the march. really cannot adequately convey the size of this thing that is happening

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

“…despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.”

Minneapolis you are an inspiration

The whistles are fantastic. That tactic - and a TON of the whistles - came from a group of organizers & activists in Rogers Park, Chicago, where Bovino and his goobermensch were before coming here. This is a global resistance.

The family of three, who have a pending asylum application, went to urgent care on Jan. 15 to get medical help for their 7-year-old daughter. They only made it to the parking lot as immigration officers detained them. It's the same location where federal officers recently shot two people.

There were several images like this, just the hat. Symbolizing the stolen child. The mournful eyes of the puppy hat creature already look like they are welling with tears. Incredibly powerful.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others. High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.

In the US we call that “standard police tactics” everywhere the police kill someone.

THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

Impeaching Noem is symbolic and symbols matter. And it should be used as an organizing tool and a way to keep the issues about ICE/DHS fresh in people's minds and importantly to propose ACTUAL ways to dismantle these institutions. This is the point I've been making for the past few weeks.

Six prominent medical associations say they will ask the courts to reverse the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new recommendations for what vaccines children should get. https://cnn.it/4pKML5h

It's not even protest. It's community defense. When the aggressor can invent pretense post hoc, what does "don't take the bait" even mean? They are lawless and violent on their own. It's a call to inaction at a time when direct action is exactly what's needed. It feels uncharacteristically naive.

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🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

This act of arson was devastating - two torahs were destroyed and the entire library. Beth Israel is the ONLY synagogue in Jackson. The synagogue was bombed by the KKK in the 1960s because of its work with the civil rights movement and its fight against racism and segregation.

IMO if you are reporting on anti-abortion legislation in individual states and not noting that the majority of this shit is model legislation drafted by orgs like Americans United for Life, you probably shouldn't be reporting on reproductive rights.

One consequence of the rapidly shrinking number of media orgs and layoffs is that lots of things get sandwiched into broad beats instead of being recognized as things that require specialized knowledge, e.g. disability and repro reporting. There's a lot of move fast and make mistakes going on.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

Find a way to be with people as much as possible. It's the way you will make it through this period of time.

PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.

I was learning about lynching at ages when I had a sippy cup & nap time. White people don't know so much about this country's history of terror until late in life. They're not equipped for this moment without the cultural memory. They won't listen to those who have it.

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One thing about Minneapolis is most everyone knows where to go and what to do. I don’t generally see locals doom-posting. They’re out at vigils and protests or running mutual aid. My block leader and neighbors have already disseminated information about where to direct resources, effort, and energy.

Zac Kinney shared this photo from the second of two ICE deportation flights at MSP today - one of the 47 deportees was still in their Amazon uniform. (I counted 127 deportees on the first flight)

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

It will never stop shocking me. They can come up to us and ask "how do I know youre a US citizen?" and "Where were you born?" I've been carrying around a passport for the last year. What a disgrace.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

If you're in the NYC area, I hope you will support this on Tuesday. I'll be there!

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I wonder which people said this about policing in general a few years ago... [I recall that there might even have been some sort of a movement focused on this] - I know that Austin already knows. EYE will never get over the bullshit though.

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

People can join in here and work remotely. bsky.app/profile/pris...

All of everything being driven by a very small group of megalomaniacs is exhausting